iplayer audio to lpcm

[Owen Smith]

Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm on half a dozen other mailing lists all of which work the other way round ie. replies go to the list. Mutter.
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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

On 8 Nov 2014, at 12:54, Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net> wrote:

> This is decoding a lossy format (AAC), not encoding. Provided there are no digital volume controls or similar being applied, the results should be identical regardless of which software is used to decode it. It's the definition of AAC that dictates what an AAC stream decodes to. Encoding yes there is plenty of room for different implementations to produce different results, but not decoding. Otherwise it wouldn't be a correct decode of the AAC.
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> Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
> Cambridge, UK
> 
> On 8 Nov 2014, at 12:26, Jim Lesurf <jcgl at audiomisc.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, I'll look at the above. One of the things I'm curious about is the
>> relative performance (in terms of quality, etc) of ffmpeg versus avcodec. I
>> come to this from being a long term user of ffmpeg, but knowing nothing
>> about the forking or its effects. Given my past I tend to go for using
>> ffmpeg as my first intent. But would/will change if it is advantageous.
>> 
>> Jim
>>